Star Wars Promis

June 17, 1985

FLORENCE, ITALY — If the U.S. Star Wars defense plan does not strengthen the Western alliance ''it will not be pursued,'' a top-ranking U.S. envoy said Sunday. ''We have already invited your participation in scientific research,'' Max Kampelman, Washington's chief envoy to the U.S.-Soviet arms talks in Switzerland, told a foreign affairs conference of the European Christian Democrats. But a decision to deploy the space-based defense system ''is not at all foreordained,'' he added. Jacques Andreani, France's ambassador to Italy, on his reservations: Star Wars was ''conceived by a country outside the European community and for ends that are not really those of Europe.''